Storyboard first draft

Storyboard

This is the story board I have made to plan our coursework.

Shot 1

The first shot will be a black screen with just the sounds of a busy road. The shot after this will show the homeless girl asleep in a doorway as it does a 2 second fade form black. We would then like to see the focus change from the hand to the girls face as her eyes twitch/flutter to show her waking up. The shot will pan backwards out from her face.

Shots 2-4

The second shot will be a long/mid shot showing her starting to sit up as people walk past this starts a match on action sequence of her sitting up. The first shot long/mid the second a mid/close up of her coming to sitting and a third of her sat up with people walking past her and simply ignoring her.

Shots 5-10

This is another sequence of match on action:

1.       Tracking close up as the girl puts her hand into her pocket and pulls out something wrapped in dirty white material.

2.       Over the shoulder shot of the girl unwrapping the object

3.       Low angle of her reaction

4.       Mid shot to show her expression

5.       Low angle as she starts to close the locket

6.       Point of view shot as the locket snaps shut

7.       Black screen

Shot 11

The black screen will have the title on it and we have not decided on one yet but we have some ideas including,

·       Numbing

·       Bleak

·       Cold

·       Loneliness.

Shots 12-13

These shots show the girl begging which would be long shots possibly from different angles and close ups of the cup she has for people to put money in with some change being dropped in there.

Shot 14

The girl is sitting on a park bench alone in the cold with nothing to do this will be a long shot. This location could be difficult as we will have to film during the holidays and it will probably be really busy but we cannot control what the general public are doing.

Shot 15

A mid shot from behind the girl of her walking so you can see people’s reactions as they walk towards her. Again we cannot control the public so we may have to ask people to be extras in our film so we can get the expression that we require for our storyline.

Shot 16

The girl is in a public bathroom showing how she has to make do with as much as she can. This will be an over the shoulder shot as she looks in the mirror.

Shot 17

The montage continues with a close up shot of a make shift sign to show her begging people for money. The risk with this is that people might actually think she is begging for money and drop some in the cup so we would have to give it back to them.

Shot 18

A long shot showing her sat alone propped up against the wall of a subway. This shot should be fairly easy to get.

Shot 19

We switch back to the public bathroom as she splashes her face with a mid shot as she tries to clean herself. This location could be difficult as people will actually need to use the public bathrooms for what they were intended.

Shot 20

A person gives her a hot drink to show that some people really do care and not everyone over looks homeless people.

Shot 21

 Back to the park we see only the homeless girl but we can hear families and groups f friends playing in the park. As mentioned previously we cannot control what the public do and the sound may not be a very good quality so we might have to add this in after filming when we edit our film opening.

Shot 22

 Close up side view of her hand, as she begs people for money/food/help.

Shot 23

Long shot side view showing the homeless girl walking down the street. Depending on where we film this we may need to find a quite place so there are not many other people.

Shot 24

 Back in the public bathroom we see her washing her arms. Again this could be difficult and we will have to take a towel in case we have to take this shot more than once.

Shot 25

Flash back to the begging sign to show her begging for most of a standard day. For this we may be able to reuse the same shot as previously if we cannot film it twice.

Shot 26

This shot will show the homeless girl in the background and a group of families playing in the foreground which will be blurred. This will be difficult as we will need to find a family that is willing to be filmed for our coursework.

Shot 27

A mid shot showing her drop her head as she is defeated by life and the general public. Again we will have to be careful about who we can see in the background as some people may not want to be filmed or there may be young children so we will have to check with their parents.

Shot 28

We see her putting a coat on in the public bathroom in the mirror via an over the shoulder shot as she prepares to go back out on to the street. Once again the public bathroom could be a problem while filming this shot.

Shot 29

As we are in England we are hoping for rain so that we can show her taking shelter from the bad weather under a bus stop. If we cannot get rain it doesn't matter but it would be convenient if it did rain so we will have to check the weather forecast.

Shot 30

Long/mid shot of the girl lying on the floor as she starts to give up and stop trying.

Shot 31

We see her begging once again and someone kicks the cup over to show the disrespect the homeless community receive.

Shot 32

A tracking shot shows the girl sigh and walk out of the public bathroom. This demonstrates how she is fed up and is building up courage to face the general public.

Shots 33-34

The homeless girl is walking down the road and we see someone walk into her and as he turns around we see him call the homeless girl “scum”.

Shot 35

This shot will be a black screen as the business stops and the quiet contrasts the montage that has been before.

Shot 36

The camera pans round from behind a gravestone to reveal the homeless girl stood over the grave.

Shot 37

Close up shot of her feet which then shows her legs buckle underneath her in a moment of grief and sadness.

Shot 38

High angle shot from over the grave shows the girl pull the locket out of her pocket and throw the white material out to the side of her.

Shot 39

Close up of the locket in her hand as she clasps her hands around it and clutches the treasured possession.